You ate this? What do these things taste like and what does the price tag look like?

Originally Posted by Ming Loyalist

i really think that those who can't get their head around the bowing thing (because their angry sky daddy will punish them) don't deserve judo. life is full of choices, and if your bronze age superstitions are holding you back, so be it.

Re: Vikings

Originally Posted by adskibullus

The vikings defiantly weren't as bad ass as people depict them.

In which ways?

Originally Posted by Ming Loyalist

i really think that those who can't get their head around the bowing thing (because their angry sky daddy will punish them) don't deserve judo. life is full of choices, and if your bronze age superstitions are holding you back, so be it.

Re: Vikings

In the two months since said field was suggested to you (not to mention since your debut here), by how much have you increased your standing? I'm guessing none.

It wouldn't matter to you. You'd still find anything you could to troll; my rims wouldn't be chromed enough, my Puerto Rican house maid's tits would point in different directions, etc, etc.

You might be several paychecks in by now, had you taken Devil's advice back then.

Yet I have a job that is willing to work around my schedules.

You do realise that sanitation is very competitive here. If you have the slightest **** up on your application it gets thrown out. Aside from that, most positions require you get a B or A endorsement on your license. We have but a few people still riding on the back of trucks yet people already with said endorsement AND driving experience applying for these jobs.

Do you even have a passport?

No, I have Progressive.

Here, i'll explain in terms you might understand:
You sit down and the waiter tells you to eat the centerpiece!
So then you're all WTF and OMG!
Everything is all about the LULZ and the nomnomnom!

At current exchange rates dinner there with wine pairings will run you around $450.

Get to work, and read the link next time dipshit.

The cow is dry.

Thanks for the information though.

Originally Posted by Ming Loyalist

i really think that those who can't get their head around the bowing thing (because their angry sky daddy will punish them) don't deserve judo. life is full of choices, and if your bronze age superstitions are holding you back, so be it.

The Vikings didn't 'disappear'. The Vikings were not a distinct people, to 'go Viking' was an activity, a career.

The source of the word, of course, is "Vik". "Bay" or "inlet" are the most common modern-English translations. To go "viking" was indeed the name of an activity, rather than that of a people.

Norse people who sailed around killing and pillaging were Vikings. But not all Norse individuals can rightly be called 'Vikings'.

Further complicating the picture is the fact that many Norse would spend some time raiding and some time trading--whichever seemed more promising at the time, given weather and a whole host of other variables. Sometimes a drakkar-ship would decide whether to trade or to raid based on the defences of the towns they encountered.

Obviously upon converting to Christianity, anybody can understand that sailing around and butchering innocent people is wrong. That's why people stopped being Vikings.

You might want to look that one up. Conversion (often by force thanks to pleasant individuals such as "Saint" Olaf) didn't put much of a brake on the sword'n'slaughter stuff, any more than it did among already-converted Saxons or Franks. Kings using monotheism to unify their followings were then able to further organize their forces, resulting in body-counts after the viking age that dwarfed anything that had occurred when the drakkar-ships still plied the waters.

Closer to (my) home, the first Norman duke (Hrolf Gangar, or "Rollo" as he's known in English) accepted nominal conversion for political gains (a very common reason among the highborn of the time, given the Roman church's power to bribe). However, as much as he contributed to local churches in Normandy, before he died he called upon--and made sacrifices to--his own ancestral gods. Playing both sides was nothing unusual in those times.